JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Jun 5, 2009 13:23:30 GMT -5
Autoerotic asphyxiation is old news. It was one of my favorite pastimes back in the seventies.
But seriously, folks have been doing that shit for years.
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Post by Ayinger on Jun 5, 2009 17:10:18 GMT -5
....and his last film was to be called "Stretch"  ? |
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 5, 2009 17:22:52 GMT -5
oh my god!
i saw it, but didn't...ouch.
LMFAO!
tho again, i suppose that would be disrespectful, eh jac?
another one gets hutchence'd....
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Jun 5, 2009 17:35:41 GMT -5
Yeah, disrespectful, but I ain't in the mood to give you a hard time today. It's not as if I really cared, then or now. I don't, however, think your term "hutchence'd" is going to catch on.
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 8, 2009 17:23:25 GMT -5
1) good.
2)ala skvorecky, hurrah.
3)and good.
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Post by maarts on Jun 9, 2009 5:44:22 GMT -5
Kenny Rankin, the renowned singer, songwriter and musician, died from complications of lung cancer at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles on June 7. He was 69.
Rankin's music career spanned 50 years beginning with a handful of singles for Decca Records in the late 1950's. A few years later he signed with Columbia Records and found himself playing guitar on Bob Dylan's landmark 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. Soon after, The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson became such a fan that Rankin was invited to appear on the show more than 20 times. Carson also contributed liner notes to Rankin's 1967 debut LP Mind Dusters, which included his much covered pop standard "Peaceful."
Growing up in the multicultural hotbed of New York 's Washington Heights neighborhood, he absorbed a broad array of musical influences, from Afro-Cuban to Top 40 to Jazz to Brazilian.
Rankin's supple pristine tenor earned him status as a singer's singer, while his songwriting talents have been widely recognized by his peers. Some of his earlier compositions include Peggy Lee's "In The Name Of Love" as well as versions of "Haven't We Met" performed by Carmen McRae and Mel Torme.
Rankin's own unique gift for reworking classic songs such as The Beatles' "Blackbird," which he recorded for his Silver Morning album, so impressed Paul McCartney that he asked Rankin to perform his interpretation of the song when McCartney and John Lennon were inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame.
The much acclaimed The Kenny Rankin Album was recorded in 1976 live with a 60-piece orchestra, arranged and conducted by the legendary Don Costa, creating what many now consider the first contemporary "torch" album.
Throughout the last 20 years, Rankin continued to tour and perform for his steadfast and devoted following.
Rankin was recently signed to the Sly Dog imprint of Mack Avenue Records, and was scheduled to record a few weeks ago with the famed producer Phil Ramone when the label learned of his illness, which led to the cancellation of those sessions.
States Mack Avenue President Denny Stilwell, "The news on Sunday of Kenny's passing took us all by surprise. That he was still at the top of his game is one of the saddest parts of his passing for me. He performed the new material in our office over the last few months and his voice was still in its finest form - he sounded absolutely amazing. Our hearts and prayers are with his family."
He is survived by his son, two daughters and granddaughter. Funeral arrangements are pending, and a memorial service in Los Angeles is being planned.
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Post by maarts on Jun 9, 2009 5:48:04 GMT -5
Soft Machine icon Hugh Hopper dies
Bass guitarist Hugh Hopper has died at the age of 64, it was announced yesterday. The Kent-born musician is best known as the bass player in Soft Machine which he joined in 1968. He remained with them until 1972 but later became an important part of Soft Machine Legacy which has toured the world in recent years.
Before Soft Machine Hopper worked with Daevid Allen and Robert Wyatt in the Daevid Allen Trio before forming the Wilde Flowers joined by his brother Brian, Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and Richard Sinclair. But it was with Wyatt, Allen, Ayers and also Mike Ratledge that he was to make his mark on the history of progressive rock and forward-looking jazz-influenced psychedelic groups of the period and since with his innovative fuzz-bass sound.
After Soft Machine, Hopper worked with a range of groups including the influential Gilgamesh and Isotope and began an association with free jazz saxophonist Elton Dean who joined Soft Machine in 1969. Later important collaborations also included work with the late Pip Pyle, Phil Miller’s In Cahoots and since 2002 with Soft Works which later became Soft Machine Legacy. Hopper had been suffering from leukaemia in recent years. A benefit was held for him at the 100 Club in London last December. A full obituary will follow in the July print edition of Jazzwise. He will be sadly missed.
It's a bad day for music.
I was just starting to get into Hopper's solo-music, especially Hoppertunity Box and through that enjoying trips to Soft Machine...sad to hear he married his sweetheart Christine two days before his death on the 7th...
Heaven's just become a little bit brighter today...
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 9, 2009 15:49:05 GMT -5
rest in peace.
and serenade the heavens.
i'm still trying to find a soft machine that'll crank me, but so far i'm WAY better off with the far more incredible (imho) gong...
any you might recommend more-or-less strongly, maarts?
i read your ashra writeup at your vinegar blog...while looking for an eno writeup.
woulda commented there but i couldn't recall my google.com ID...
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Post by Ayinger on Jun 9, 2009 20:51:05 GMT -5
I heard a bit of Rankin on NPR today....intrigues me to want to check some stuff out by him.....
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Post by maarts on Jun 10, 2009 8:34:26 GMT -5
Re: Soft Machine...number 2 is for me the standout, number 3 and 5 are great too but I can understand it's not everyine's cuppa. But I liked Wyatt's drumming on these albums and there is a looseness within the performance that really appeals...
the Eno-writeup is on this board, on the Eno-board below. I'll bump it up.
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 10, 2009 15:37:48 GMT -5
i've got one studio softs and a couple of live ones...and so far, kinda meh.
but i'll see which #s i've got and correct accordingly.
thanks!
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Jun 17, 2009 12:03:49 GMT -5
The Ventures guitarist Bob Bogle dies at 75
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Pioneering guitarist Bob Bogle, whose rock-instrumental band the Ventures scored a pair of hits in the 1960s with "Walk, Don't Run" and "Hawaii Five-O," has died, the group said on Tuesday. He was 75.
Bogle died on Sunday of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at a hospital after falling ill at his home in Vancouver, Washington, according to bandmate Don Wilson.
The Ventures were "the most popular instrumental rock 'n' roll band of all time" and are worshiped as "gods" in Japan, rocker John Fogerty said at the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction last year.
Influenced by the likes of Les Paul and Chet Atkins, the Ventures helped pave the way for surf music, and sent 38 albums into the pop charts between 1960 and 1972. They continue to perform to this day with a slightly different lineup.
The Ventures' origins date back to 1958, when Bogle and Wilson started performing as a guitar duo around Tacoma, Washington.
After the lineup crystallized, the Ventures hit No. 2 in 1960 with "Walk, Don't Run," a tune previously popularized by Atkins. The song showcased lead Bogle's innovative use of the tremolo arm on his guitar, although he eventually handed over lead duties to bandmate Nokie Edwards.
The Ventures toured and recorded prolifically, and were especially revered in Japan, where they reportedly outsold the Beatles.
They enjoyed a new wave of popularity in 1969 when their version of composer Mort Stevens' theme for the cop series "Hawaii Five-O" went to No. 4 on the Billboard charts.
Bogle stopped playing with the band four years ago, and was unable to attend the Hall of Fame ceremony in New York. A private funeral is set for Friday. Bogle is survived by his wife, Yumi, and six children.[/b] |
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Jun 23, 2009 9:14:20 GMT -5
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 23, 2009 15:29:30 GMT -5
shit, that sucks.
waitasec!
is carson still alive?
ed's 'haw, haw, haw johnny!!' was one of those things where you just couldn't help laughing with those guys.
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Post by Kensterberg on Jun 23, 2009 15:41:27 GMT -5
Carson's been gone for a few years now. I know before he died he let it slip that he considered Dave to be his real heir, not Leno.
Every time I'd hear something about Ed McM in the last few years I'd have one of those "I thought he was dead" moments.
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